the w t w's crime fighters are back with africa's most successful radio drama series continues. first of all episodes are available online. course you can share and discuss on d. w, africa's facebook page, and other social media platforms. crime fighters, tune in. now this is d w, news africa coming up on the show. why is an indigenous group in the democratic republic of congo being attacked and pushed off their ancestral land. an investigation finds that d r. c park authorities of burning down villages and murdering indigenous. but while people we find out who's ordering these attacks and funding such human rights abuses, after almost 2 decades of delays, the international criminal court holds its 1st trial addressing the conflict in da for a sudanese militia leader is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity and

are in tanzania where muslims are feeling the pinch of rising food prices as they mock ramadan. ah, i'm here mohammed, thanks for joining us to the democratic republic of congo or an indigenous community called the butler claim. they are being brutally forced out of that native land. the community live in the co who's e b a got national park, a unesco world heritage site. and investigation by the minority rights group has found a deadly 3 year campaign by park gods and soldiers to expel the butler, the but was say, they've been tortured, raped, and murdered. d. w is, mario miller met some of them. so these hills are home

to endangered guerrillas. the cow was he began national park as a unesco welled, heritage side funded with public german money. it's a magnet for tourists, even though it's tucked away in the east of the democratic republic of congo. but the pop is also home to these villagers about why people, they've allegedly suffered killings rapes and the burning of their homes. these photos document what looks like a systematic tara pam pane the aim to drive them out of the park. they tell us a rats group says this persecution is indirectly financed by the german government . last november, the village was attacked and the bat were left. they have been scratching a living in this abandoned construction site since then could be be colo bar told us just one of many gruesome stories we heard. she was working in her field when she heard there was an attack. she ran home as fast as she could. not an engineer,

i found that my house was already burned. there was only smoke coming out from where the house was, or another unworthy raheem. i took a stick to pass it through the ashes. mag i saw the head men of one of my children in it had gone in the la. here you go. one look good. whoa. she took her other children and fled away from the village. but haunted by what she found than the wreckage, the door had been tight shut, though so burned her house must have locked her 4 year old and her 5 year old inside. witnesses say the attack as were park guards and cali soldiers. they say park management wants to keep the bat while people out, even though it includes their ancestry land. is this in coming out of when they was sent by the wildlife will 30 well go every year since 2019. they've come to attack garza, he long. well, go to somebody,

when they killed people, they cut off their arms and showed them to others, or no one telling them to leave the fields. why? oh, they would exterminate them all. we wanted to tell them on the construction side as squalid. there's no clean water or medical help. it's not even safe. there was a violent attack by an armed group a few days before we arrived. the n g o minority rights group has extensively researched the violent incidents in the last 3 years. in the latest report, they say pa guards have killed at least 20 unarmed civilians, gang raped 15 women enforced hundreds to flee. we found 2 per guards who admitted being actively involved in multiple attacks. they would only talk anonymously. they said a colleague who had spoken before, had been found dead. i was there. they already built their villages 3 times and we

destroyed them. they started in 2019. we burned the houses that were there, but they still rebuilt. usually they carry out attacks with soldiers from the kali's army. he says, but he was clear that orders come directly from the park director. did you beyond that we left together mixed with our brothers of the national army. and the order came from our leader de dubia omby. we was 75 people. our mission was to go and burn these houses and whoever tries to play around if you have to kill them, you kill them. the aim is to terrorize the villagers so badly that they dont return . he says they use machine guns, rocket propelled grenades and mortars, and the attacks he says, both deny having committed or witnessed any cases of rape o back in the park. the but why have decided to return to their village?

even if it's risky? he be, be caliber, will fix her house, try to rebuild her life. so the but was say, they'll stay here. no matter what is people come to kill them. at least they'll die on their land. the minority rights group report also found that park authorities continued to receive funding from foreign governments like the u. s. and germany as well as conservation groups, despite being made aware of the atrocities since 2019 how he put these allegations to the relevant authorities. the national park director did you bow bear, wrote to d, w, saying there had never been any targeted violence in the park and that he had never ordered such a tax. he said he was a victim of a conspiracy to get rid of him as pock director and germany's ministry of development. his calling for an independent investigation. it released the

statement saying, we take these allegations very seriously. they are, if they are correct, they will be consequences, including germany, support of the national park. foreign this i'm joined by robert philip, felt he is the author of the minority rights group report that looks into the allegations of violence against the but where people in the d r. c. thank you very much for being with us here. andy w, news africa. are you satisfied with the response from the parties that have been responsible for helping conserve this park? well, it's important to note that although it's good that the german government in particular has expressed grave concern at what we've addressed. the german government was notified on all of the agencies involved and supporting the park were notified repeatedly beginning in 2019 of the campaign that has been conducted organizing members of this indigenous community, the bottom of their response. when those agencies and the german government were notified in particular g, i said k, if w was less concerned with such notifications,

were not public as an example. after a particularly gruesome attack in july of last year, when j zed received a specific notification of the details of the fact that a village had been several villages had been entirely destroyed. people killed ex chusen style targeted with heavy weapons, a staffer from g. i said, went with the german ambassador to the park, not to investigate, but actually to organize a p. r stunt to smiled next to part guards according to the press spokesperson, to congratulate the part guards on the, on their mission, on their hard work. and on to and to promise to and i try to convince german tourists reluctant german tourist at to come to the park. so although now there's a lot of concern. ah, that concern hasn't been there for the last 3 years when there were multiple notifications of about this, about this violence here. so with this specific investigation, can you just talk us through how you were able to conduct it and gain access to the specific cases? yeah i'm,

it's important to note that although we did talk to hundreds of eye witness sources, some of the strongest evidence that we were able able to gather was actually physical evidence that to say we visited these villages, days after their destruction while they're literally still smoldering. while they're still literally articles of bloodstained clothing drawing in the sun visited the freshly dug graves recovered shell casings from weapons that were used consistent with the accounts of eye witnesses. a k 47 rounds rounds from belt fed machine guns boxes, even from heavy weapons use you don't 60 millimeter mortars are p, jeez, as well. so in addition to hundreds of eye witness sources, we also gathered a preponderance of physical evidence and additionally spoke to parker, who participated in the violence and describe, describe quite glibly, having a, quite a crisis of conscience about the fact that they were engaged in these sorts of attacks aimed at expelling an indigenous community from, from their ancestral antea. so we have an idea of who is conducting the attack 1st

hand accounts, but who is authorizing them? and what's the motive? well, there's no question that the orders came directly from from park leadership. these are not bad apples. park guards deciding to engage in terrific tax on their own initiative. this was an institutional policy to expel indigenous people from a park that sits on their ancestral lands. it was sanctioned at the highest level by park authorities. and incidentally, although of course, all of the international supporters of the park would say they had no handiness. they did indeed provide substantial military style support the provision of support for training military style training, combat techniques of weapons handling for the park guards, as well as non lethal military equipment, as well as bank growing the entire operation the entire time. despite being notified of the fact that this campaign was ongoing, with the intention of expelling by to or from, from their land via so this concept of militarized,

militarized sedation does not require an element of policy reform. and in order to hold those accountable going forward, i would say that on the whole, this is a rigidly neo colonial, violent mode of, of protecting wildlife. a it's, it's, some people call it the fortress model that's to say, creating militarized fortresses where you know, the only people that, that are allowed to visit are sort of foreign taurus who can come and visit or cons . foreign conservation is experts and everybody else, you know, in particular, marginalized communities are denied access to the land. and if they try to enter, you know, the best cases that they're arrested, worst cases that they're subjected to sort of tremendous brutality. i think there is no question that this approach to conservation is not only fundamentally unjust, but it actually doesn't work at pits, communities against the notion of conservation. and additionally, in different places where it's tried, it simply doesn't work. you have either increasing and accelerating biodiversity

loss or not only is it unjust, but it's also a sort of dysfunctional approach. absolutely needs reform. yes. and just very quickly, if you could just break down, what are the responsibilities under the laws? in the d r c, to protect indigenous communities that your dear see is a signatory to the universal declaration on the rights of indigenous people which acknowledges the right of indigenous people to access their ancestral lands. now that, of course, that flies in the face of, you know, the sort of history of the bottle were originally expelled from the park in the mid 19 seventies. and then, upon returning 2018, were subject to the sorts of organized violence that we documented in our report. so although dear c as a signatory to that law, obviously the way in which the government and the supporters have behaved in the p n. k b has been strictly and consistent with a with the recognition of of that right in tried in the you and your peer. ok, rabbits. phil felt thank you very much. need to speaking to cathy is africa. thank you so much. thank you. you watching the diabetes africa

still to come? the 1st i see see trial addressing the murder and torture of hundreds of thousands of people in sudan star for region. we have more on the man accused of overseeing these war crimes and are in terms of near where rising food prices are spoiling the holy month of ramadan for some listen families. but 1st, the coven 19 pandemic has created a space for a range of new startups and food delivery apps in zimbabwe. one online food store is doing. it's part to help people buy food safely and avoid the journey to a busy supermarket by delivering groceries straight to customers doorsteps. d w. 's provision was vanity has the story from harry lou. excellent. yeah. i receiving food orders are right at the doorstep. has become a convenient and safe option for some residents in zimbabwe. escabido hardy for

current young online shopping innovations, help to reduce the risk of infection. during the peak of the pandemic, she regularly orders a fresh produce and food from the online start up a fresh in a box. it's been a life saver. am i missing a man? so as you can see, i have a small and child as if me going to the supermarket along with the worry of infection and has also been the time factor. so even now that things are a little bit lesson from, from a cupboard perspective, i still find the deliveries and valuable just to saving the time. one line should be, is deadly growing in zimbabwe. and it has brought many services closer to citizens in the comfort of their homes. could em, cecile founded the familiar ran, set up a phrase in a box. customers can order fresh call innovation has made um,

shopping for, for the everyday individual. very, very easy. they go on the fonts or the order from us, and then we deliver to the homes, obviously, with coven 19 making this the new normal. um it, during the big panics and the big girls locked downs, we became ubiquitous and became the no, absolutely necessary was holmes. the coroner virus pandemic has been a real booster to the online startup company. after it was founded in 2018, it only served in average of a $120.00 customers a day until corvette long downs, a started. now that his short up until more than a 1000. it fresh from fresh in a box, major source of vegetable being able to sell online, helped a civ from produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. because of course, it in lockdown. why i've learned from the pandemic is that, you know, humanity needs to find ways of being more sustainable in the way that it needs in

the way that it grows in the way that it survives. are we are going to have to find ways of survival in a space where we're not as closely knit as we used to be? the coroner virus pandemic may have brought many challenges for farmers in social innovators. but it is brought a many good lessons to consider for the future. now for the 1st time, a sudanese militia leader is on trial at the international criminal court for atrocities committed nearly 20 years ago in sedans, dar 4 region aaliyah there are mine, also known as ali crocheted is suspected of being linked to the danger we'd on grouped he's been charged with $31.00 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. he doubly is tommy, all our depot reports, printer authorities ready to react based on the charges laid out. it's a huge a suit to have ali mohammed ali up there, man. finally facing justice, sunset,

also known as alika shape. he's described as having a ruthless reputation. see that as one of the leaders of the jangle we had militia, that terrorized sedans dar for region for years. but it's a case where there is a multiplicity of evidence from different sources that the accused killed. he ordered, he encouraged a full range of crimes. the full range of crimes um that before you honors, he participated and he ordered among the accusations, leveled against abdominal, is that he was not a leader disconnected from his foot soldiers actions. but that he was actively involved in the atrocities. witness after witness saw him, heard him, recognized him witness after witness new mister abdur rahman from before. if the defendant denies the charges him well, it was oh, i had them in a dorm, i reject all these charges. i am innocent of all these charges. i am not guilty of

any charges o what's not in doubt however, is the change of weeds violent campaign from 2003 as they travelled on pickup trucks or on horses. it carried out mass killings, rapes, and torture. as the militia hit back at rebels, complaining of oppression by the arab dominated government in the capital, har tomb. but they targeted civilians, 2 millions suffered as a result and to date violence, a still flaring up in the region. and now at the hague, the 1st of many accused militia leaders is being made to answer for these crimes nearly 20 years since the violence began. many dull for ease see this trial as better late re and never 25. well, let's discuss this further with elise kaplan. she is the associate director and the international justice program at human rights watch was were to have you with us on details in east africa. now alika shape is the 1st suspect to be tried for war

crimes committed in dar 4. how significant is this trial? this child is incredibly significant moment for our, for our sudan, for justice, generally around the world. this is the 1st time a leader is being held to account for the her riffing crimes committed and our for that the world 1st watched in 2003, 2004 in horror at the brutality of these crimes all of these years. no one has faced justice for the crimes at any significant level of responsibility. co shapes . trial is the 1st time someone is being held to account. and the international criminal court is really playing a role as a crucial court of last resort. sudanese authorities have not been willing or able to see justice for these crimes. but why has it taken so long to get to this point? there are a couple of factors at play. the 1st and most significant, one is that

o mar albus year was empower in sudan until 2019. and he himself has spaces charges by the international criminal court for alleged to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed in for he, it blatantly refused to see the sudanese government cooperate with the international criminal court despite a legal obligation to do so by through a resolution by the un security council. so that really blocked the possibility of these cases going forward for a tremendous amount of time. he was ousted out of power in 2019, and then in 2020 we saw cushy, voluntarily bring himself into custody of the international criminal court. he had been in central african republic breaking open the possibility for this case and hopefully more cases involving the outstanding fugitives to face judicial

proceedings for the lead. when does cooking to sifting our focus on to former president amal this year? where does this leave him? will we be single share on trial? eventually, there is a call for the current student authorities to transfer omar al this year, he's currently in sydney's custody. he had been facing charges related to how he came into power in sudan. it's important to note that the transitional government that came into force after he was ousted, began to cooperate with the international criminal court, signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate with the court. it's been a challenging situation, though, there was a military coup following the transitional government coming in to force in october . and though the new authorities have indicated they will respect that memorandum of understanding with the international criminal court. we are waiting to see and

it's imperative that this, these authorities do transfer the outstanding suspects this year and 3 others, 3 of whom are in sydney's custody, so that the victims can finally have access to justice. people have been waiting and yearning to see justice happen for these crimes. in fact, there's a pretty incredible footage of when former prosecutor of the international criminal court that you been sort of travel to dar for, for the 1st time in 2021 of people in displace camps sheree and shanty for the arrival of the international criminal court trial in hopes of seeing justice finally prevail for these horrific crimes. right? at least kept us from human rights. want to thank you very much indeed for your time. ah, the rising food prices are happening globally, partly due to the war in ukraine, a key source of weight for many countries. at the same time,

muslims are observing the holy month of ramadan, where they fast from sunrise and ended with a meal cold. if dar at sunset, but rising prices and destruction to supply chains, i'm making that the challenge. he doubly as charles convey, met one family in dar salaam. robin has a new level of uncertainty right now. but do you have wheat flour and all night? yes we do. oh, i got one and a half kilos. for 2300 shillings. i used to pay 1700 shillings. the prices have gone up a lot. what we're going on, i'm from the one. that is g. for nearly every sin at the market, mario's teachers are the primary school. i'm also has money owns a shop. yet they simply can't afford the fan feast. no normally have. at

home. mary m still makes a feast but is smaller than usual with one another, the more i'm in florida with one another. i bought just one and a half kilos rather than 2 an hour budget is smaller in the current situation. oh, when though it's difficult, it's up to me to make sure my family has a delicious. if t r, i do my level best to get what they like, what the number one that why you know the day me who oh the key to even in prayer. after that, did these fast is over and every one can eat. the children don't fast and have already eaten. cliff dad to day is just marry him. how husband and her brother the women, can you my usually with where will be more of us here at my sister's house yet, but the price rises mean we cannot invite neighbors of friends to join us anymore

while to come. i did my murano murphy. maria has provided for her family this year . if tyree's smaller, dory ease, what things will look like next year or that's our show. we now leave you with black coffee. a thought african deejay won his 1st grammy on sunday. his album is called subconsciously and was named the best dance electronic album. so here we go. enjoy the 1st track which is caught last. i for now. ah, i can single bam. ah

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